Ventriloquise / Ned Denny.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Denny, Ned, author.

Contributor:

Carcanet Press (Manchester, England), publisher.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century.

English poetry.

Poets, English.

Physical Description:

95, [1] pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Carcanet Poetry, 2023.

Summary:

Ned Denny's startling new collection recalls what Heidegger says - in his essay on H̲lderlin - about the poet, of all mortals, reaching most deeply into the abyss. In what does this abyss, the "world's night," consist? In the fact that the gods have departed, and in the rootless, heaven-proof and now worldwide technocracy forged in their absence. Yet the poet is also the one who sees, in that night, the lost gods' traces, and there are glimpses here "through a veil of names" of nature's saving radiance, of the indestructible delicacy of Claude's last landscape, of a "wild grin of insect glee" just beyond the confines of sleep. As Denny's adept voice 'throws' itself into and through other texts, forms, places, things and times - including works by Heine, classical Chinese poets, Pindar, Ronsard, H̲lderlin, Mallarm̌, Victor Hugo and Lorca - it becomes clear that the fathoming of our iron age is inseparable from the coming dawn.

Notes:

"The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9781800173316

1800173318

OCLC:

1385445300